Confederacy of ineptitude…

…on Cabinet decision-making
The APNU/AFC government appears confused about the difference between “in” and “out” when it comes to extricating their collective foot from their mouth in the Pharmagate” scandal. With every new “explanation” or excuse offered, they only stick their foot further into their gastro-intestinal tract. If they keep this up, pretty soon that foot will be sticking out of their nether orifice!
The latest bit of asininity on the issue came from Vice President and Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, when he inadvertently revealed how Cabinet decisions are made. God help Guyana!! He said the decision to rent the “warehouse” was made after being told the Albouystown facility was going to be M/monthly versus M monthly for NEW GPC’s. This illustrates, at best, the most potent reason why this “Cabinet no-objection” nonsense must stop. Can you imagine people in charge of this country not enquiring about square footage costs?
This Eyewitness can’t. It was already revealed by Minister Trotman that the sourcing of a new warehouse for pharmaceuticals was to “stick it to Bobby Ramroop”, after their first move to scrap the “pre-qualification criteria” for sourcing pharmaceuticals. This was never a decision about delivering better health care to Guyanese – it was always a punitive political ploy. But somebody got greedy and decided to make a killing on the side.
If storage per se was the concern, the government had their own Diamond Facility. The excuse about “congested” traffic is so ridiculous it doesn’t even deserve an answer.
Ramjattan also said Cabinet was “under the impression” that the new facility “was ready”. “Impression”? That’s what the Cabinet uses to make decisions? Maybe they’ll use a Crystal Ball next? What about looking at the terms of the contract?
Well Guyanese have finally been made privy to THAT document – sort of. And the stench increases! Why not the SIGNED copy? Well, for one it’s for “office space” not “warehouse”!! Hence the frenetic activity after exposure in Parliament! Secondly we’d have a clue as to who’re the parties initiating and consummating the deal, no? Why’d they want to hide this? If the Minister innocent, wouldn’t the information exculpate him by showing he was ignorant of the details be lied about?
Because even the portion of the contract released shows what a sweetheart deal Larry Singh got. Not only was he given a “deposit” that (purely by coincidence!!! ROTFLMAF!!) allowed him to buy the property free and clear, but the government was going to pay for all the expenses of running the warehouse!! It was a license to print money!!
It’s clear the “sweetheart deal” wasn’t one-sided. So who’s the sweetheart from within the government? And when will he get the boot?

…on education CoI
Something’s fishy with the state of our educational system. And it’s the new powers-that-be who said this – right after assuming office. So as with the Inquiries into dozens of govt agencies, a Commission of Inquiry was duly constituted to diagnose and prescribe treatment for the ailment in the sector. Concerned citizens whose kids were dropping through the education cracks like finely powdered goat dung, were wondering when the long awaited report would be submitted.
Only to now discover the CoI never even met, cause the representative of the Teachers Union had to be jettisoned because of “cost”!! Yep! You read right! After spending hundreds of millions on “audits” that led nowhere and new CoIs still springing up like “jumbie umbrellas”, we can’t afford a Teacher Rep on a CoI that’ll eventually need teachers’ buy in to be implemented??
Something’s also fishy with those in charge of the educational system!

…on the economy
So we’re being exhorted to pull ourselves out of our economic doldrums through ‘entrepreneurship”. Well, it doesn’t matter what you produce – goods or services – if you can’t find markets.
So whatever happened to that Mexican RICE Market opened up by Prime Minister Nagamootoo???